Improvement in folding ladders



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH M. WHITE AND ANDREW J. KEE, OF HANNIBAL, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING LADDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,582, dated April 8,1873; application filed December 11, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J. M. WHITE and A. J. KEE, of the city of Hannibal,county of Marion and State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ladders; and do hereby declare the following tobe a full and accurate description of the same, reference being bad tothe annexed drawing making a part thereof.

Our invention relates to that class of ladders that are sectional andfolding.

The flat step h is placed upon the side pieces a a by passing theslotted ends of b I; through the mortises i i, till the ends of the steph rests upon the top of 0 c, the whole forming a cheap, durable, andsecure step-ladder, as represented in Fig. 1, or, by the removal of steph and unfolding the sections, a rest or carpenters ladder.

JOSIAH M. WHITE. n s.] ANDREW J. KEE. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

SAML. MARSH, H. M. BROOKS.

